If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
BETTY FRIEDANYou have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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